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Although funding impacts businesses as much as high-speed rail authorities, many manufacturers are excited for the opportunity to provide services in the U.S. and optimistic their products have what it will take.
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Two new red and green buses designed to look like trolleys ride along four routes that include more than 100 designated stops, such as at hospitals, universities and shopping centers.
Read More →Following a project to equip more than 1,000 buses with GPS technology in 2009, dispatchers in the MBTA's Bus Operations Control Center were able for the first time to pinpoint the location of every MBTA bus in real-time. As of today, that same information is available to T bus riders, regardless of route.
Read More →As GM of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District from 1999 through last month, Celia Kupersmith oversaw bridge operations and a bus transit system offering more than 58 local and inter-county routes, and the largest ferry system in California.
Read More →As it enters the new model bus testing program, the vehicle will undergo rigorous performance evaluations in the areas of maintainability, reliability, safety, performance, structural integrity and durability, fuel economy, noise, emissions testing and brake testing.
Read More →Motorcoach driver Joe Fimple drove a tractor-trailer for a beverage company for 30 years before he started working for C&J bus services based in Portsmouth, N.H..
Read More →'Go Metro-Los Angeles' allows customers to locate the nearest Metro Bus lines and Metro Rail stations based on the iPhone's GPS capabilities. The app is integrated with Google Maps. Rail stations are represented with a pin and a popup displays the bus line information.
Read More →Let's simplify the definition of 'pivot point.' The pivot point is the specific location on a bus that an object must align with before the operator attempts to overtake that object, whether it is a vehicle, sign, etc. Attempting to overtake the object — fixed, pedestrian, double parked vehicle — before that object reaches the pivot point locations mentioned below by bus model, will result in making contact with that object. Let's look at the various pivot point locations on some buses.
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Two CATS buses will get a custom wrap that looks exactly like a NASCAR stock car. The buses will also carry ticket information and logos for three NASCAR events taking place at the speedway in October.
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